10-Hour Micro-credential in the Introduction to Promoting 21st-Century Skills in the Classroom
Issued by
Bridge Education Group
Earners of this badge can explain how the 21st-century job market is changing and discuss the challenges and opportunities that these changes bring. Earners can determine what hard and soft skills they lack and how they can acquire them. Earners can describe how 21st-century pedagogical practices can help students develop 21st-century thinking skills and apply varied strategies for incorporating technologies into their 21st-century classroom.
- Type Certification
- Level Advanced
- Time Weeks
- Cost Paid
Skills
- 21st Century Teaching Practices
- Lesson Planning
- Self-skill Assessment
- TEFL
- TESOL
- Transferrable Skills
Earning Criteria
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Receive an accumulative score of 70% or higher by completing 1 final exam and a graded assessment. The graded assessment includes the completion of three short essays that address the future of the job market and how that affects current learners, the skill set a modern teacher should possess, and an in-depth review of a pedagogical practice covered in the course that is appropriate for the 21st Century.
Standards
Bridge Education Group is accredited by ACCET (Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training), a US Government Department of Education recognized agency and has over 20 years of experience in language teaching and teacher training. This program has been reviewed and adheres to ACCET’s standards, policies, and procedures.
Bridge Education Group is accredited by AQUEDUTO (The Association for Quality Education & Training Online). Institutions accredited by AQUEDUTO have been reviewed against the Quality Assurance Framework which reviews over 45 criteria sources from three domains: Institutional, pedagogical, and technological.
For ACCET accredited BridgeTEFL courses, successful trainees earn one Continuing Education Unit (CEU) for every 10 hours of TEFL course instruction.